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Navigating Ownership and Support in Child-Led Research: Addressing Power Dynamics

This paper examines the complexities of ownership and support in child-led research, highlighting the interplay between adult influence and child autonomy. It discusses how adult agendas can manipulate and exploit children's research interests, limiting their ability to make informed choices. Through various case studies, such as children's views on teacher-pupil relationships and school counseling, the study emphasizes ethical responsibilities and the need for genuine support frameworks that empower young researchers. Ultimately, it advocates for equitable collaboration between adults and children in academic inquiry.

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Navigating Ownership and Support in Child-Led Research: Addressing Power Dynamics

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  1. Whose research question is it anyway? Issues of ownership and levels of adult support

  2. Resisting the adult juggernaut • Power • Manipulation • exploitation

  3. support enabling: training in research process sustaining: training in data collection skills supporting: paving the way with gatekeepers helping: transcipts, literacy; numeracy; writing frames empowering: dissemination platforms management influencing: allowing adult interests/agendas to influence what children research limiting: only teaching children certain skills thereby reducing their ability to make ‘informed choices’ judging: suggesting that their idea isn’t ‘worthy’ of researching hijacking: content and/or ownership Support versus ‘management’

  4. Child research or subversion? • Might adults feel threatened by child’s choice of research focus e.g. • ‘Exploring 12-year-olds’ views about teacher-pupil relationships in the classroom’ • Investigating young people’s attitudes to ‘smacking’ • Personal space, personal identity: exploring the extent of adult power over pupils’ right to individuality. • Students’ views about the school leaving age • An ethnographic study of the inner workings of a school council • CHILD RESEARCHER HAS AN ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITIES

  5. Activity • Research focus: ‘Investigating student attitudes to school counsellors’ • Think about: • kinds of support an adult would need to offer to enable a child to undertake this study • Power issues • Ethical and legal issues • Implications for policy and practice • ownership

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